AEI This Week
Sep 07, 2019
AEI's weekly digest of top commentary and scholarship on the issues that matter most
 
 
E-cigarettes are not off the hook
 
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Even if most of the lung-injury cases are traced to the oils and chemicals used to emulsify THC or CBD into illegal vaping “juices,” that doesn’t let legally sold, nicotine-based e-cigarettes off the hook, writes Scott Gottlieb.
 
 
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Behind closed doors
 
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Our system of government is built around a relatively deliberative legislature, which is not a parliament that facilitates the imposition of the majority’s will but a congress that compels competing parties to pursue accommodations, writes Yuval Levin.
 
 
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In New York City, an attack on programs for gifted students
 
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Frederick Hess writes that New York City's attack on gifted programs is the latest example of America’s schools being consumed by a push for “equity” at the expense of educational excellence.
 
 
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The dueling narratives of India’s Kashmir crackdown
 
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Sadanand Dhume explains that New Delhi’s actions have been welcomed domestically, but Narendra Modi’s government will have a hard time selling its message abroad.
 
 
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Pentagon should take the lead on tech
 
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A reinvigorated military technology portfolio and more aggressive use of agile purchasing rules would help regain some of the nation’s lost innovative edge. But Mackenzie Eaglen writes that there's no time to waste.
 
 
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Medicare reform can no longer be ignored: Warnings from the 2019 Medicare trustees report
 
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The latest annual Medicare trustees report highlights the program’s growing fiscal challenge and reflects policymakers’ ongoing failure to prepare Medicare for the future, explain Joseph Antos and Robert Moffit.
 
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